Homeowner Iman Shuweihat said he was awoken at 6 a.m. by police breaking down the door of his two-story home in southeast Fort Collins. “There were like 50 cops in my house,” he said. “At first I thought it was my roommates’ friends playing a joke.”

Shuweihat, who said he was questioned and then released by police without incident, said officers told him they were investigating reports that his roommates had been manufacturing spice. Spice is the slang term for synthetic marijuana.

Shuweihat said his roommates told him they were making incense in the garage, and had made something twice in the past several months.

“The smell was something sketchy to me,” he said. “I didn’t give two thoughts about it.”

Shuweihat said police officers photographed his car and then let him go without charges. He said he believes his roommates were taken into custody.

The raid was conducted by members of the Northern Colorado Drug Task Force with assistance from the Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Security Investigations agents. Task force detective declined to answer questions Friday morning, but confirmed they were searching multiple locations around Fort Collins.

In a terse statement, the task force’s commander, Lt. Greg Yeager, said “several” search warrants were executed Friday morning, said there was no danger to the public, and declined to release additional details. He said federal officials would announce more information on Monday.